The New Orleans Saints will hold their Black and Gold scrimmage at 11 a.m. today at the practice facility at Airline Drive and it will be anything but a normal practice day.

Michael DeMocker/The Times-PicayuneNew Orleans Saints cornerback Jabari Greer (33) reaches out to bat a pass away from wide receiver Lance Moore (16) during team drills. Greer said today's scrimmage will be more intense than normal practice.

All players who are healthy will participate and there will be nine "sets", according to Coach Sean Payton, although what that means is yet to be determined.

For those healthy players, it will be a time to pick up the pace.

"It will be intense," said defensive back Jabari Greer. And, when asked if it will be more so than at other times this week, he said. "Oh, yeah, much more. We'll really be getting after it tomorrow, so everyone needs to come out and watch it. It's going to be fun."

For many observers, the defense has gotten the best of the team drills recently. A fact that hasn't gone unnoticed by the defense.

"Hey, the offense has had their day and we've had our day," Porter said. "But everyone is just out there trying to compete."

Porter said that going against Drew Brees and Co. is a great way to make that side of the ball better. Brees said the same thing earlier in the week.

"You're seeing just about every defensive look you can see," Brees said about the Saints defense. "So by the time that the games roll around, you feel like there's nothing you'll see in a game that you haven't seen already from our defense.